&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Wager_1944_IWM_FL_8784.jpg) HMS Wager on completion, 1944 (IWM)
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Wager |
| Ordered | December 1941 |
| Builder | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down | 20 November 1942 |
| Launched | 1 November 1943 |
| Commissioned | 14 April 1944 |
| Identification | Pennant number: R98 later changed to D298 |
| Motto | Spensione provoco - I challenge with a wager |
| Honours and awards | Okinawa 1945 |
| Fate | Sold to Yugoslavia in October 1956 |
| Badge | On a Field White, a cross Blue charged with five bessants within a horseshoe inverted Red. |
| History | |
 Yugoslavia | |
| Name | Pula |
| Namesake | City of Pula |
| Acquired | October 1956 |
| Fate | Decommissioned in 1971 and sold for scrapping |
| Notes | Pennant number: R22 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | W-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 362.75 ft (110.57 m) o/a |
| Beam | 35.75 ft (10.90 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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| Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h) / 32 knots (59 km/h) full |
| Range | 4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 225 |
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HMS Wager was a W-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War. She was sold to the Yugoslav Navy in 1956, renamed Pula, and scrapped in 1971.